Chasing Cars

Once again I did what I swear I will never do. Well, not exactly swear. But I did, at one point of my life, really believed that I will never never ever start another blog. Blogging is such a modern phonomenon that it feels like a fad. A really long fad - which people in the know call trends. I have started in my 22 years of life, numerous blogs, of varied nature. I have my personal blog, which has migrated from platform to platform. Ironically now, my personal blog lies in the servers of the monopolistic company known as Microsoft. I have nothing agaisnt microsoft, or its really ugly operating system. It's just that I am a mac user.

The only great thing about Microsoft Spaces, is that everytime you update your blog, your online msn contacts will know about it. The bright yellow star will blink, telling the world that once again Sudirwan has succumbed to self indulgence to write about his life which is not really a life. The bad thing about Microsoft spaces is everything else. And being a mac user, you can't see that star.

So i decided that I should migrate my personal blog to blogspot, which I use to host my other uncared blog. My design blog. Or more specifically, my attempt to be part of the ever elusive world of design writing.Coffeebanana is the name of that design blog, and its a collaborative between Kristen Danker and me. Both of us are design and art enthusiast. She got smart and became a teacher. Me, being the more optimistic and dumb one, succumbed to the unglamorous world of long hours of blood, sweat and tears and became a graphic designer. I love design and art, but writing about it, seems so hard. I am still trying – so no, I am not ditching Coffeebanana just yet. Sadly, Kristen seem to have gave up, and now is more interested in sexy Physical Education trainee teachers and student clubs.

Coffeebanana the design blog, is not Kristen and I first foray into the world of collaborative blogging. In fact, our first collaborative blog was also called Coffeebanana, and its our personal blog. Yes, a personal blog shared by two people. The blog had some great content – cooking videos (yes way before they was such a thing called videocast), computer voices and msn chat logs. Sadly, Kristen outgrew that blog and started her own blog, which I must say Kristen, is not that happening either! So I was ditched. Stiil, I find the idea of collaborative blogging to be very appealing.

Then one night, I had a brilliant idea that me, Farhan and Zaid should start a blog together. It would be great I thought. Who is Farhan and Zaid you ask? Well together, they appear to be like husband and wife, if only one of them is a girl. But they argue alot. Not that their arguments merits for anything. I am okay if the argument was about the merits of improving world poverty by holding huge world telecast conserts or the merits of trying to help aids victim in Africa by selling rebranded products. But their arguments are so pointless – they argue about whether one of them have anything against a certain camera brand or something equivalently pointless. But that's what I like about them. Their pointless arguments add to a certain background noise, that i find, calming. My advice to them. Stop trying to out bitch other. Cause in the end, you are still bitches.

Individually, they are one of the nicest, most unprejudiced people in the world. I can talk with them for hours and hours and still talk some more. They can be sarcastic at times, but always in jest. Inspiring to no end, and I hope, I can as inspiring to them as they are to me. And through them, I get to know other great people. Nora, Rara and Sara! The three girls somehow seem like a mirror image of me, Farhan and Zaid. Just much more mature and sane. Someone I would like to be

So back to the point. I wanted to start a collaborative blog with Farhan and Zaid, but it appears that Zaid was not too sussed about that idea. Oh well, I am appealing to you guys one more time, lets do it! You are invited to join this blog and trust me, it would be great! But of course you are free not to do so. Cause, by blogging with other people, you lose the narcissistic nature of blogging. Collaborative blogging forces you to think a little deeper before you write. It forces you to be responsible. Because what you write, whether you like it or not, represents the group, not just yourself.

I start this blog, not knowing what it is going to be about. I would like to call it a personal blog. But I am not too excited to write about what I ate for lunch or what I lift during my late evening gym sessions. I have a life, not much of a life, but still a life. I would like this blog to be much more than just a journal of a sexually confused twenty something, trying to find his way in this world. I hope it could be much more than that.

So if you are reading this, you are probably suppose to be reading this. And you, probably would understand why the title of this blog entry is Chasing Cars.

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